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Book Review

Friends Divided: John Adams Massachusetts colonists saw history I have ever read, is the way in which its Pulitzer

And Thomas Jefferson as deserving to represent them Prize-winning author, Gordon S. Wood leads us, through
in the Continental Congress
433 pages, to understand the significance of its final
A Book So Brilliant, So Revealing, So when it was formed in 1774. sentence, and the reason why it is so:
“That’s why we honor Jefferson and not Adams.”
At those sessions of
Shockingly Relevant To Our Nation’s Current Congress in Philadelphia, There is bitter irony in John Adams’s final words on
State Of Affairs. Adams was one of the most his deathbed when we realize that, for example, there is a
forceful voices in favor of magnificent Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., and
By Nils A. Shapiro independence that ultimately Jefferson’s portrait on our 25-cent coin and $2 bill, and no
They could not have been led to the assignment like honor for Adams.
more unalike. of a committee to draft a The greatest, most meaningful difference between these
Thomas Jefferson, who Declaration of Independence, two great men is one that was new to me until I read it
had been born in 1743, which assigned Jefferson to here: their surprisingly opposing views about the form of
was handsome, gentle in write the document, and which government that should be established for the new United
demeanor, soft-spoken, – with only minor changes by Adams and one other member – States of America – a disagreement so profound that it would
courtly of manner, born was dated July 4th, 1776 and signed by the Founding Fathers. ultimately shake a deeply held friendship to the point where
to wealth – an aristocrat But that is only the barest beginning of the story—the neither spoke nor corresponded with the other for a period
by nature who, already a part that many of us know from our basic high school and of 11 years!
Virginia slave-owner, college history classes. Some of us even recall the remarkable Because Adams had been through “the school of hard
married into one of its largest fact that these two giants of our nation’s founding both knocks” on his way to a successful career, to him it was
slave-holding families – yet to his core believed in the basic died on the same day – Jefferson at his Monticello home in “‘the few, the rich, the well-born, and the able,’ who, with
goodness and equality of all men, and treated his own slaves Virginia, and Adams several hours later at home in Quincy, their heightened sense of avarice and ambition, were the
well as measured by the standards of the time. He became Massachusetts – on July 4th, 1826 ... as America celebrated social order most dangerous to liberty and the stability of
an attorney, wrote the Virginia State Constitution and had an the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of the society.” He felt that if there was only one House of
unquenchable thirst for knowledge: “He was interested in Independence! Unaware of what had taken place hundreds Congress in the new federal government, this class of men
more things and knew more about more things than any other of miles south of him, Adams’s last words were, “Thomas would dominate the people’s other representatives made up
American ... He amassed nearly seven thousand books and Jefferson survives!” of the common men. Therefore, he was convinced that the
consulted them constantly; he wanted both his library and But what makes this book so extraordinarily
his mind to embrace virtually all of human knowledge, and fascinating, and one of the most impressive works of Book Review on page 11
he came as close to that embrace as an eighteenth-century
American could. Every aspect of natural history and science
fascinated him.
“He knew about flowers, plants, birds, and animals,
and had a passion for all facets of agriculture. He had a
fascination for meteorology, archaeology, and the origins
of the American Indians. He loved mathematics and sought
to apply mathematical principles to almost everything ... He
was an inveterate tinkerer and inventor and was constantly
thinking of newer and better ways of doing things, whether …
plowing, the copying of handwriting, or measuring distances.
“Jefferson also called himself ‘an enthusiast on the subject
of the arts.’... he became quite proficient playing the violin ...
and apparently had a fine clear voice. He was also passionate
about architecture and became, according to one historian,
‘America’s first great native-born architect.’”
John Adams, eight years older than Jefferson, was a very
different kind of man in many ways. Small pursed lips formed
a constant scowl-like expression, which, together with a
sharp tongue, matched his clever ability to speak whatever
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